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GitHub Rebase #22

This week it's Rebase Book Edition! There's plenty of documentation projects going on at GitHub, and it's about time they got some attention. Clone yourself a copy, head outside with…

Nick Quaranto
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Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin

We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…

Scott Chacon
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Documentation Explosion

RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it'll take…

Nick Quaranto
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GitHub Rebase #20

Yet another Sunday, yet another Rebase! Featured Project compass makes CSS not suck. It's a flexible CSS meta-framework that ties together the power of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) and…

Nick Quaranto
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Amanda!

Amanda developer @djmitche writes: I'm a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We're…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Rebase #16

It's time for another Rebase! Let's get started. (Want to get noticed? Here's how to improve your chances) Featured Project selectorgadget is the swiss-army knife of embeddable bookmarks. It can…

Nick Quaranto
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Gruber Gets It

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

Chris Wanstrath
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Scripting Bioclipse

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Rebase #11

A bit late, but always delivered. All of the projects and people featured this week crank the volume to 11! (Stats Breakdown lost its passport on vacation, and hopefully will…

Nick Quaranto
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GitHub Rebase #10

And we're back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!…

Nick Quaranto
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Gnome DVCS Survey

In December, the Gnome team did a survey of its contributors about which DVCS they might be interested in moving to in 2009. The GNOME DVCS Survey Results are now…

Scott Chacon
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Only the beginning

2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…

Scott Chacon
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A New Homepage Begins

We've begun to revamp the GitHub homepage to more accurately reflect what we're all about. The first step of this redesign was to more prominently feature our private code hosting…

Tom Preston-Werner
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GitHub Rebase #7

Welcome to the seventh edition of Rebase! Starting this week I'll be nominating a new repo to the "Featured Project" section on the front page, and explaining why I think…

Nick Quaranto
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TortoiseGit Challenge

Poor Windows support has always been a big roadblock to Git adoption. The truth of the matter these days is that Windows support through msysGit is actually quite good. Git-Gui…

Scott Chacon
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Git is Better

As we all know, Git is the best SCM system out there. However, some people have decided that we in the GitHub community may be misled by hype or the…

Scott Chacon
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GitHub Rebase #6

Welcome to the sixth edition of Rebase! (guaranteed 100% tryptophan free) Stats Breakdown (GitHub users definitely love their football and turkey. Check out the huge drop on 11/27!) Notably New…

Nick Quaranto